Re: operation can be dispatching in only one type

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 27/11/2015 09:37, Dmitry A. Kazakov a écrit :
>> That's what is called syntactic sugar. (Sugar is pleasant, isn't it? But
>> > not in my coffee, no thanks ;-) )
> Why do you use record types at all? It surely is just sugar dust put on a
> memory chunk. You certainly could declare Get and Set operations to extract
> and set members at the specified memory offsets. No?
1) For types not exported by packages
2) For types exported by packages where you want the structure to be
public, like information returned by queries. You don't always need to
hide information.

And when a construct provides higher abstraction level, it is NOT
syntactic sugar. A record provides typing and controls over raw memory.

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